Researchers have developed a learning mechanism for robot hand-eye coordination based off the development of human infants. By implementing infant like learning behaviors and development patters, they have created learning algorithms that provide fast and incremental hand-eye coordination.

PIDDYBOT is a self balancing, inverted pendulum robot designed to teach the basics of PID control to kids in real-time. The project is based on his previous Tiny Balancing Robot, which was too simple using only an on-off bang-bang approach for the motors, and no PID control to speak of.

edX, the online learning resource from the likes of Harvard, MIT, Berkley and a heap of other prestigious universities from around the world have a bunch of relevant courses starting soon. The best part? They're certified by the university they're hosted by and look great on your C.V. or University Application.